Bangladesh polls LIVE: Voting begins in country’s crucial parliamentary elections
A significant contest will take place in Dhaka-8 where BNP’s strongman Mirza Abbas is being challenged by National Citizen Party’s Nasiruddin Patowary. Leading prime ministerial hopeful Tarique Rahman, 60, is confident his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) can regain power, but he faces a stiff challenge from the Muslim-majority country’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami. A total…
